Nobody can shoot a bullet through a banana in such a way that the skin is perforated but the banana remains intact. However, on the level of individual atomic layers, researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have now achieved such ...
Nanophysics
Aug 3, 2020
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The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists.
Superconductivity
Jul 29, 2020
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The Navy's quest to power its ships by converting seawater into fuel is one step nearer fruition.
Materials Science
Jul 15, 2020
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162
EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials.
Nanomaterials
Jun 23, 2020
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671
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a theoretical foundation and new computational tools for predicting a material's spin dynamics, a key property for building solid-state quantum computing platforms and other applications ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 3, 2020
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Dr. Jeong Nam-Jo of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Marine Energy Convergence and Integration Research Team developed synthesis technologies for an electrode material that can directly synthesize molybdenum ...
Materials Science
May 26, 2020
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Rice University researchers have found evidence of piezoelectricity in lab-grown, two-dimensional flakes of molybdenum dioxide.
Nanomaterials
May 7, 2020
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A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents—the flow of electrons without wasting energy—along the exterior edge of a ...
Superconductivity
Apr 30, 2020
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Researchers from the Higher School of Theoretical Mechanics of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and Tel Aviv University proposed a new approach to improve the efficiency of mathematical modeling ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 29, 2020
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Polarization, in sync. On the macro, everyday level, it reads as an oxymoron. To the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Xia Hong and her fellow nanoscientists, though, the apparent contradiction makes a kind of harmonious ...
Nanophysics
Apr 29, 2020
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